[Xapian-discuss] Xapian Debian/Ubuntu repositiories does not work (APT does not handle redirects!)

[James Aylett]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:35:24PM +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:

> > Changed, very grudgingly. apt can't handle redirects? Jesus, we'll be
> > finding it can't handle dependencies properly next. Oh wait, that's
> > already true.
> 
> we just had the same problem with apt4rpm. the official answer was that
> an admin could redirect users to malicious servers if apt would support
> redirects. what a false sense of security.

Thank heavens Nevada and Indiana are making progress.

J

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